Maningning Basis launches novel, awards bilingual poetry prizes

PRESS RELEASE: The Maningning Basis presents ‘Alaala/Alang-alang sa Sining 2025’, honoring the late poet and artist Maningning Miclat

The next is a press launch from the Maningning Basis.

On the twenty fifth yr of the passing of trilingual poet and artist Maningning Miclat, the artwork basis named in her honor presents “Alaala/Alang-alang sa Sining 2025,” a twin occasion that may award prizes in its biennial poetry contest and launch the deluxe version of Mario I. Miclat’s autobiographical novel, Secrets and techniques of the Eighteen Mansions (revealed by Erehwon Heart for the Arts) on September 29 at 4 pm on the UP Asian Heart GT-Toyota Auditorium on the College of the Philippines Diliman campus, Quezon Metropolis.

The e book has been hailed by nationwide artists, writers, and critics. “The fiction is Reality alive,” wrote Gémino H. Abad, Nationwide Artist for Literature, whereas fellow Nationwide Artist for Literature Virgilio S. Almario, stated: “Mario’s memoir/novel is likely one of the most artistic histories of the rise and fall of the Maoist motion within the Philippines. It’s a daring evaluation of the power and weak spot of a revolution in trendy instances, of the anticipated flexibility and significance of Marxism in our society, of the tragedy of blind submission to ideology, of the necessity for proper schooling even for cadres of the revolutionary motion, and the morality of the revolution.”

Marjorie A. Evasco, poet and literature professor emeritus, stated: “Mario’s novel seeks to open for its readers the China of Filipinos who had been contained in the so-called ‘bamboo curtain’ earlier than, throughout, and after the Marcos dictatorship. Wealthy in evocative element and animated by characters sharp of their ironic sense of the unrepeatable in human expertise, the novel lays naked the secrets and techniques and strikes us into new information of a world made bigger and deeper in its complexities.”

Novelist Ninotchka Rosca wrote: “Mario’s e book has been tough to get into; in all probability as a result of it’s a acquainted expertise — that of making an attempt to reconcile the dissonance between revolutionary values and revolutionary apply. The e book is so full of unhappiness.”

In the meantime, one other novelist, Charlson Ong stated: “Secret lives. Secret loves. Secret wars. The 18 mansions betray secrets and techniques which are as merciless because the destiny of countries, as enduring as a folks’s spirit, as fragile because the human coronary heart. This too is our Historical past, our Exile.”

This system will characteristic a prayer by Robert Reyes, remarks by Asian Heart dean Noel Moratilla, introduction on the creator and the e book by the previous dean Joefe Santarita, and particular numbers by Calle Manu, Aba Dalena, and Banaue Miclat.

The finalists for the Filipino poetry class are: Andro Blancada, Ronel Osias, and Tresia S. Traqueña. There are 4 finalists for the English poetry class: Graciela Acedera, Vince Raphael V. Agcaoili, Kei Edyl Angelo Gemora, and Avril Shakira Villar.

The occasion, which is a part of the seventieth anniversary of the UP Asian Heart this yr, is open to the general public, however guests should register first at this hyperlink or web site. – Rappler.com